More Nokia tablet rumors, and what's this? MeeGo for touch

by Steve O'Hear

June 21st, 2010 | Posted in Mobile | 5 Comments

Another day, another rumor of Nokia’s next-generation Internet tablet.

This time from Digitimes, which pegs the device at 7-9 inches, based on an ARM chip and running the Nokia/Intel MeeGo OS.

Yes, that’s right, not a version of Windows 7, despite Nokia’s increasingly cozy relationship with Microsoft and its track record with the Booklet 3G netbook (see first impressions).

And low and behold, on the same day as the report, MeeGo shows off a multi touch-friendly version of the Linux-based OS, which looks quite promising.

It very much borrows from the smartphone ‘home screen’ approach that we first saw in Moblin – remember MeeGo is Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo merged – with lots of aggregating of content and tie-ins with social networking updates, media and messaging. Alternatively, there’s a simpler or iPad-esque UI mode with a traditional grid of icons.

There’s also the now compulsory app store – dubbed the AppUp Store – so that MeeGo apps can be browsed, purchased (?) and installed.

See the video after the jump…

Intel, MeeGo, Nokia

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